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Elon Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, revealing his panic over OpenAI dominance

OpenAI slams Musks lawsuit as part of his "ongoing pattern of harassment."

YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators

Google says this isn't technically "GenAI," but it is altering videos without warning.

With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don't exist.

College students time travel AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation.

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV.

Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way.

"Someone will lose a phenomenal amount of money," says CEO while fundraising at record prices.

Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says

Australias biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots.

In Xcode 26, Apple shows first signs of offering ChatGPT alternatives

Claude support in Xcode heralds bigger moves across the ecosystem.

Is GPT-5 really worse than GPT-4o? Ars puts them to the test.

It's OpenAI vs. OpenAI on everything from video game strategy to landing a 737.

US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says

It appears Groks antisemitic rants stopped it from becoming feds go-to chatbot.

Google releases pint-size Gemma open AI model

The new Gemma model is a fraction of the size of most new models.

Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids

Meta drops AI rules letting chatbots generate innuendo and profess love to kids.

Upcoming DeepSeek AI model failed to train using Huaweis chips

Startup encountered persistent technical issues using Huawei Ascend chips.

Sam Altman finally stood up to Elon Musk after years of X trolling

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are beefing. But their relationship is complicated.

Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?

Opinion: Theatrical testing scenarios explain why AI models produce alarming outputs-and why we fall for it.

Google Gemini will now learn from your chats-unless you tell it not to

Gemini will remember this, so it's time to check your privacy settings.

OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt

After unpopular GPT-5 launch, OpenAI begins restoring optional access to previous AI models.

OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

Sam Altman says we could soon have "high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces."

Why its a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes

The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work.

Perplexity offers more than twice its total valuation to buy Chrome from Google

Google may soon be ordered to sell Chrome, and Perplexity is ready.

YouTube backlash begins: Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?

Adult YouTubers defend childish viewing habits in fight to block AI age checks.

Musk threatens to sue Apple so Grok can get top App Store ranking

Musk threatens to sue Apple to get Grok to top spot in App Store rankings.

China tells Alibaba, ByteDance to justify purchases of Nvidia AI chips

Move comes after negotiating an export agreement with the US.

The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess

OpenAI faces backlash as users complain about broken workflows and losing AI friends.

Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping

The Internet Archive confirmed it's in ongoing discussions with Reddit after block.

GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down

Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018.

LLMs simulated reasoning abilities are a brittle mirage, researchers find

Chain-of-thought AI "degrades significantly" when asked to generalize beyond training.

Trump strikes wild deal making US firms pay 15% tax on China chip sales

The deal wont resolve national security concerns.

Apple brings OpenAIs GPT-5 to iOS and macOS

It's unclear exactly how GPT-5's new approach to model-switching will work here.

Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself a disgrace to my species

Google still trying to fix "annoying infinite looping bug," product manager says.

A coalition of tech investors and AI companies is launching a US political action network called "Leading the Future" to influence AI legislation.The initiative is backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife Anna Brock...

TSMC is removing all Chinese equipment from its 2-nm chip factories, sources report

CEO Arison says no single AI model will always meet Grindrs needs

Brave discovered a security flaw in Perplexitys AI browser Comet that allows for so-called indirect prompt injection attacks.In these attacks, malicious commands are hidden in web pages or comments and are then interpreted by the AI assistant as legitimate user instructions when ...

Deepseek reportedly delayed its latest AI model after technical issues with Huaweis Ascend chips

xAI has released Grok 2 as an open model, including the weights.Elon Muskannounced on Xthat Grok 2.5, xAI's top model for 2024, is now open source. The weights for Grok 2 are available onHugging Face. Musk also saidGrok 3will be released as open source in about six months.

Reformulating web documents into synthetic data addresses the growing limits of AI training data

Students who cheat are more likely to use generative AI tools for academic work, study finds

Meta licenses Midjourney's "aesthetic technology" to improve visual quality of future models

Open-weight reasoning models often use far more tokens than closed models, making them less efficient per query, according to Nous Research.Models like DeepSeek and Qwen use 1.5 to 4 times more tokens than OpenAI and Grok-4-and up to 10 times more for simple knowledge tasks. Mist...

China Questions Nvidia, When Models Memorize, Mixture of Video Experts, OpenAI & Oracle Join Forces

China Questions Nvidia, When Models Memorize, Mixture of Video Experts, OpenAI & Oracle Join Forces

Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, Computer Use Gains Momentum, Fine Control of Fine-Tuning

Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, Computer Use Gains Momentum, Fine Control of Fine-Tuning

DeepSeek Sharpens Its Reasoning: DeepSeek-R1, an affordable rival to OpenAI''s o1

DeepSeek Sharpens Its Reasoning: DeepSeek-R1, an affordable rival to OpenAI''s o1

Tumbling Training Costs, Desktop AI Supercomputer, Tighter AI Export Restrictions, Improved Contrastive Loss

Tumbling Training Costs, Desktop AI Supercomputer, Tighter AI Export Restrictions, Improved Contrastive Loss

GPT-5''s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India''s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation

GPT-5''s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India''s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation

Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens

Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3''s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3''s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

Power Moves in AI Coding, Moonshot''s Agentic LLM, How to Comply with EU AI Regs, AI Agents Evolve

Power Moves in AI Coding, Moonshot''s Agentic LLM, How to Comply with EU AI Regs, AI Agents Evolve

Grok Raises Questions, Meta Poaches Talent, California Reframes AI Regulations, Multi-Agent Systems Get Stronger

Grok Raises Questions, Meta Poaches Talent, California Reframes AI Regulations, Multi-Agent Systems Get Stronger

How to Make LLMs Commit Blackmail, Robotic Beehive, Walmart''s AI App Factory, Training Web Agents

How to Make LLMs Commit Blackmail, Robotic Beehive, Walmart''s AI App Factory, Training Web Agents

Amazon''s $100 Billion Bet, Meta''s Sensor-Packed Glasses, Anthropic''s Reason-Free Reasoning, Google''s Extreme Weather Prediction

Amazon''s $100 Billion Bet, Meta''s Sensor-Packed Glasses, Anthropic''s Reason-Free Reasoning, Google''s Extreme Weather Prediction

Judge Rules Training AI on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use, Agentic Biology Evolves, Meta Befriends Alexandr Wang

Judge Rules Training AI on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use, Agentic Biology Evolves, Meta Befriends Alexandr Wang

Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile, Hollywood Joins Copyright Fight, OpenAI Ups Reasoning Quotient, LLM Rights Historical Wrongs

Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile, Hollywood Joins Copyright Fight, OpenAI Ups Reasoning Quotient, LLM Rights Historical Wrongs

FLUX.1 Kontext''s Consistent Characters, Benchmarking Costs Climb, Mary Meeker''s Action-Packed AI Report, Better Video Gen

FLUX.1 Kontext''s Consistent Characters, Benchmarking Costs Climb, Mary Meeker''s Action-Packed AI Report, Better Video Gen

DeepSeek-R1 Refreshed, AI''s Energy Conundrum, Agents Get Phished, Machine Translation in Action

DeepSeek-R1 Refreshed, AI''s Energy Conundrum, Agents Get Phished, Machine Translation in Action

Claude 4 Advances Code Gen, How DeepSeek Built V3 For $5.6m, Google I/O Roundup, O''Reilly Versus OpenAI

Claude 4 Advances Code Gen, How DeepSeek Built V3 For $5.6m, Google I/O Roundup, O''Reilly Versus OpenAI

Codex''s Robot Dev Team, Grok''s Fixation on South Africa, Saudi Arabia''s AI Power Play, 4-Bit Efficiency With 16-Bit Accuracy

Codex''s Robot Dev Team, Grok''s Fixation on South Africa, Saudi Arabia''s AI Power Play, 4-Bit Efficiency With 16-Bit Accuracy

Recipes For Reasoning, Open and Compact Code Generator, Looser AI Regulations, More Factual Output

Recipes For Reasoning, Open and Compact Code Generator, Looser AI Regulations, More Factual Output

ChatGPT Grovels, Qwen3 Takes on DeepSeek-R1, Johnson & Johnson Reveals AI Strategy, Easy Reasoning Hack

ChatGPT Grovels, Qwen3 Takes on DeepSeek-R1, Johnson & Johnson Reveals AI Strategy, Easy Reasoning Hack

Next set of VC judges locked in for Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

AI sycophancy isnt just a quirk, experts consider it a dark pattern to turn users into profit

Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms

Robomart unveils new delivery robot with $3 flat fee to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats

Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5

OpenAI warns against SPVs and other unauthorized investments

Amazon AGI Labs chief defends his reverse acqui-hire

Apple gets ready for AI in the enterprise with new ChatGPT configuration options

Apple is in talks to use Googles Gemini for Siri revamp, report says

Nvidia reportedly halts production on its H20 AI chips

Google makes it easier to edit Drive videos with a new Vids shortcut button

Report: Meta is hitting pause on AI hiring after its poaching spree

Google doubles down on AI phones with its Pixel 10 series

Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages

Y Combinator alum SRE.ai raises $7.2M for DevOps AI agents

Meta is shaking up its AI org, again

DeepSeek-V3 New Paper is coming! Unveiling the Secrets of Low-Cost Large Model Training through Hardware-Aware Co-design

DeepSeek Unveils DeepSeek-Prover-V2: Advancing Neural Theorem Proving with Recursive Proof Search and a New Benchmark

Can GRPO be 10x Efficient? Kwai AIs SRPO Suggests Yes with SRPO

DeepSeek Signals Next-Gen R2 Model, Unveils Novel Approach to Scaling Inference with SPCT

Beyond Next-Token Prediction? Metas Novel Architectures Spark Debate on the Future of Large Language Models

Meta inks deal with Midjourney

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Sunday Special: A rare peek into an exploding star

Robotics Special: Waymo heads to the Big Apple

Anthropic eyes $10B war chest

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Google doubles down on AI with new Pixel phones

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New MIT study spooks Wall Street

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Microsoft introduces Copilot in Excel

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Meta set to debut new smart glasses for under $1,000

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Sunday Special: Mind-reading brain chips

Google's new model fits on your phone

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Gemini gets major updates

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The APAC AI paradox: unlocking potential amidst evolving perceptions

A data architecture for the age of AI

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon

AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp

Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp

Bug bounties: The good, the bad, and the frankly ridiculous ways to do it

Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative

CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it

Australian university used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors

Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech

Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites

Getting touchy-feely with a Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2

xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok

Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests

AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya

Microsoft lets devs tell Copilot to STFU in Visual Studio

IBM, NASA cook up AI model to predict solar tantrums

Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot

DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon

Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason

Honey, I shrunk the image and now I'm pwned

Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal

Google's $250 AI agent can only help you book restaurant reservations

AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders

Microsoft makes MCP in Visual Studio GA but researchers warn of risks

AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

Baidu robocabs break even on one metric in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere

Post-privacy AI glasses claim to listen to your every word

Talk to the bot: Salesforce AI agents could replace US govt employees

Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When?Researchers from PSU and Duke explores automated failure attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems

In recent years, LLM Multi-Agent systems have garnered widespread attention for their collaborative approach to solving complex problems. However, its a common scenario for these systems to fail at a task despite a flurry of activity.

ByteDance Introduces Astra: A Dual-Model Architecture for Autonomous Robot Navigation

ByteDance introduces Astra, an innovative dual-model architecture revolutionizing robot navigation in complex indoor environments.

MIT Researchers Unveil SEAL: A New Step Towards Self-Improving AI

MIT introduces SEAL, a framework enabling large language models to self-edit and update their weights via reinforcement learning.

Researchers from PSU and Duke introduce Multi-Agent Systems Automated Failure Attribution

Automated failure attribution is a crucial component in the development lifecycle of Multi-Agent systems. It has the potential to transform the challenge of identifying what went wrong and who is to blame from a perplexing mystery into a quantifiable and analyzable problem

Adobe Research Unlocking Long-Term Memory in Video World Models with State-Space Models

By combining State-Space Models (SSMs) for efficient long-range dependency modeling with dense local attention for coherence, and using training strategies like diffusion forcing and frame local attention, researchers from Adobe Research successfully overcome the long-standing ch...

Zhipu.AIs Open-Source Power Play: Blazing-Fast GLM Models & Global Expansion Ahead of Potential IPO

Zhipu.AI open-sources faster GLM models (8x speedup), launches Z.ai, aiming for global expansion, potentially ahead of IPO.

AI Video Generation Race Shifts from Capability to Profitability, Challenging Soras Dominance

The AI video generation landscape is shifting from capability to profitability, challenging OpenAI Soras dominance. Competitors are surpassing Sora in quality and efficiency, with users preferring alternatives. The focus is now on improvements like precise control and style custo...

Nvidia Intensifies Robot Push with New Humanoid Platform as Industry Giants Eye Lucrative Future

Nvidia will launch Jetson Thor for humanoid robots in H1 2025, entering a growing market where Google is also active. The robotics sector is projected for substantial growth. Nvidia offers integrated hardware and software solutions. Simultaneously, Chinas rapidly developing domes...

Automating Artificial Life Discovery: The Power of Foundation Models

A research team introduces Automated Search for Artificial Life (ASAL). This novel framework leverages vision-language FMs to automate and enhance the discovery process in ALife research.

Llama 3 Meets MoE: Pioneering Low-Cost High-Performance AI

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and NVIDIA proposes upcycling approach, an innovative training recipe enables the development of an 8-Expert Top-2 MoE model using Llama 3-8B with less than 1% of the compute typically required for pre-training.

DeepMinds JetFormer: Unified Multimodal Models Without Modelling Constraints

A DeepMind research team introduces JetFormer, a Transformer designed to directly model raw data. This model maximizes the likelihood of raw data without depending on any pre-trained components, and is capable of both understanding and generating text and images seamlessly.

NVIDIAs nGPT: Revolutionizing Transformers with Hypersphere Representation

An NVIDIA research team proposes the normalized Transformer, which consolidates key findings in Transformer research under a unified framework, offering faster learning and reduced training steps-by factors ranging from 4 to 20 depending on sequence length.

From Token to Conceptual: Meta introduces Large Concept Models in Multilingual AI

A research team at Meta introduces the Large Concept Model (LCM), a novel architecture that processes input at a higher semantic level. This shift allows the LCM to achieve remarkable zero-shot generalization across languages, outperforming existing LLMs of comparable size.

NVIDIAs Hybrid: Combining Attention and State Space Models for Breakthrough Performance of Small Language Models

An NVIDIA research team proposes Hymba, a family of small language models that blend transformer attention with state space models, which outperforms the Llama-3.2-3B model with a 1.32% higher average accuracy, while reducing cache size by 11.67x and increasing throughput by 3.49...

From Response to Query: The Power of Reverse Thinking in Language Models

In a new paper Time-Reversal Provides Unsupervised Feedback to LLMs, a research team from Google DeepMind and Indian Institute of Science proposes Time Reversed Language Models (TRLMs), a framework that allows LLMs to reason in reverse-scoring and generating content in a manner o...

Yann LeCun Teams New Research: Revolutionizing Visual Navigation with Navigation World Models

In a new paper Navigation World Models, a research team from Meta, New York University and Berkeley AI Research proposes a Navigation World Model (NWM), a controllable video generation model that enables agents to simulate potential navigation plans and assess their feasibility b...

The Future of Vision AI: How Apples AIMV2 Leverages Images and Text to Lead the Pack

An Apple research team introduces AIMV2, a family of vision encoders that is designed to predict both image patches and text tokens within a unified sequence. This combined objective enables the model to excel in a range of tasks, such as image recognition, visual grounding, and ...

Redefining Music AI: The Power of Sonys SoniDo as a Versatile Foundation Model

In a new paper Music Foundation Model as Generic Booster for Music Downstream Tasks, a Sony research team presents SoniDo, a groundbreaking music foundation model that offers robust framework for improving the effectiveness and accessibility of music processing.

DeepMinds Socratic Learning with Language Games: The Path to Self-Improving Superintelligence

Researchers from Google DeepMind introduce the concept of Socratic learning. This refers to a form of recursive self-improvement in artificial intelligence that significantly enhances performance beyond the initial data or knowledge available to the system, as well as a practical...